My Home Theater

Hello there!

I'm new to the forum and came here originaly to talk about a plumbing question I had, BUT....., since you've got a Home Theater section, I thought I'd drop in and welcome you to my "man cave" (virtually of course).

Here's a quick rundown of my toys;
I've got a Sanyo front projection unit shining on a DIY 140" 16:9 diagonal screen. The screen is 5.5 feet tall and 10' wide.
In all, there are (9) Hawthorne Audio 15" speakers for the left, center, right, and subwoofer channels. The rear two channels are HawthorneAudio 10" speakers.

Here's a couple photos for ya':
{They're a bit dated, as I've made some changes to the system and have not updated my gallery recently}

{The blue glow is from the projector}

These are a pair of "Open Baffle" speakers I built. They might look kinda funny, being open in the back, but in the interest of sound quality and "soundstage" as it's called, having the rear open has some amazing advantages.
A quick Google search of "Open Baffle" might suprise you.

When my wife wants me, she knows where to look first. I'll be in here.

I've actually got another (newer photo) of what's called an "Infinite Baffle". I added a few more 15inchers and didn't have room for them. So, I took them and a few of the one's laying on the floor (wife says it looked like a garage sale ) and hide them under the projection screen. The results were not only an increase in available floor space, but a tremendous increase in low frequecy production (I can rattle things off shelves upstairs):